If you’re online as a writer for any length of time, you’ll quickly hear about the six-figure bloggers that are blogging for money, and how they’ll sell you their courses-books-workshops etc. etc. etc. so you can do it too. I’l be honest, I started out this blog that way. I know how tempting it can [...]

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Freelance writers are uniquely positioned to make money in a down economy. Working for ourselves, being creative types, having the freedom to pick and choose clients – all can make us money, right? There are tools you can add to your toolbox though that go beyond finding more and better-paying clients and competing for more [...]

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Despite the radio silence here on SFW of the past few months, I’ve been busily working on new writing gigs and projects.  The reason I’ve been cranking up the output is that as the economy slows (and according to the “experts” I’m listening to, that’s a given) I believe freelancers are possibly in the best [...]

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I’m reading Seth Godin’s excellent book, Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out Of Synch?, and it describes the ways some businesses are attempting to jump on the bandwagon of the new tools and services on the Internet but are not quite “getting it”. They’re trying to just layer the latest thing onto their business-as-usual product/marketing/advertising [...]

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As a writer, I want to take advantage of more of what the Internet offers. I recently saw online a l-o-o-o-ng discussion about why a potential publisher sent a writer seemingly contradictory messages about why they were not accepting their submission for publication. The writer was baffled. And hundreds (I think) of people responded with [...]

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Yesterday’s interview with C. Hope Clark of Funds For Writers was really great – she definitely has her finger on the pulse of inside information about finding freelance and full time writing jobs, grants, contests and more. I’ll be posting a free link to the full transcript later this week, if you want to make [...]

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I just reviewed a bunch of survey responses from my list members, and the results are pretty striking. It seems that while both new and inexperienced writers are definitely taking advantagew of opportunitites on the Web, there are a whole host of tactics and strategies for increasing income which many writers still seem unfamliar with. [...]

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